President’s Report (Chappell)
Activity since the last conference:
o Moved headquarters to Belmont University (Nashville)
o Development and distribution of resource CD
o Registration of organization in Tennessee (formerly in LA)
o Trademarking of meiea name
o Development of task assignments, based on general membership survey
results (see below)
o New advisory board members: Jim Van Hook, Hunter Williams, Todd
Brabeck
o Two 1-year appointments in executive board, one due to a resignation
and one because no one was nominated; Kemmerer was appointed Acting
Secretary and Sanchez was appointed Acting Vice-President

Election Procedures and Results (Sanchez)
o Anonymity of voting results assured
o Recipients of follow-up no-vote survey also anonymous
o As a result of two appointments, there is a total of three general
board vacancies; resolution made that runners-up to elections moved to
fill those vacant Board positions
o Results of spring 2006 voting revealed:

Research Stipend Awards (Lewis)
o See Appendix C
o Question: how to make donations “in memory of” or “in honor of” to
augment research stipends; will be considered by Board and information
made available

New Business
o D. Weissman:
Concern for national/international awareness and
recruitment
Concern that conference panel discussions/speakers
are repetitive and lack diversity; suggestion that we investigate
combining resources with NARAS; suggestion that we vary our geographic
location for conferences to utilize the unique resources in different
areas
o K. Wangler:
Development of a education resource file (ex.
syllabi, curriculum development ideas, etc) that will be linked to
website
o B. Sosnick:
Acknowledge service of M. Lewis for dedication as
Director of Student Services